Top 100 Quotes About Simpler
#1. With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
#2. When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
Laura Donnelly
#3. I have learned that ...life is much simpler than ...one perceives
Monish Bhalla
#4. People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.
Alex Tabarrok
#5. Tax reductions are usually simpler and less distortive. I'm certainly willing to look at getting rid of tax deductions/credits, and go to dramatically reduced rates.
Grover Norquist
#6. Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#7. So my advice is to always choose something simpler - an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening.
Philip Treacy
#8. The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.
Henry Walter Bates
#9. The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art. Mind takes form in the city; and in turn, urban forms condition mind.
Lewis Mumford
#10. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
David Allen
#11. The simpler we make things, the richer the experiences become.
Steve House
#13. The bottom line is we need a tax code that is more simpler, that is more fairer, that gets rid of the special carve-outs, the special lobbyist loopholes. That's the direction we need to go.
Erik Paulsen
#14. Simpler theories may be more convenient to work with, but they are not intrinsically more probable than complex ones.
Samir Okasha
#16. Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.
Terry Pratchett
#17. Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around
Pete Townshend
#18. People do not think in English or Chinese or Apache; they think in a language of thought. This language of thought probably looks a bit like all these languagesBut compared with any given language, mentalese must be richer in some ways and simpler in others.
Steven Pinker
#19. While everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#20. Don't be difficult, Denys," Nell chided. "All women like a little flattery from time to time." "What if they didn't? What if they simply liked themselves and no one needed to bend backwards to flatter them? Wouldn't it all be simpler then?
Paula McLain
#21. It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It's that they know what they are selling. Liberals in general and Obama in particular cannot say the same.
Eric Alterman
#22. There's more power in the simpler things, I think.
Robin Trower
#23. What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone's memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days.
Andrea Lochen
#24. Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.
Seth Godin
#25. Increasing complexity on its own is not, however, the ultimate goal or end-product of these evolutionary processes. Evolution results in better answers, not necessarily more complicated ones. Sometimes a superior solution is a simpler one.
Ray Kurzweil
#26. You know, when people talk about filmmaking and the techniques of filmmaking, we use them all the time in network television news in order to make our stories simpler, tighter and more understandable to the general public.
Lowell Bergman
#27. Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
Lawrence Durrell
#28. Bureaucracies temporarily suspend the Second Law of Thermodynamics. In a bureaucracy, it's easier to make a process more complex than to make it simpler, and easier to create a new burden than kill an old one.
Clay Shirky
#29. Everything I write tends to turn into a superhero team, even if I didn't mean for it to. I always start off wanting to be solitary, because a) it's simpler, and b) that isolation is something that I relate to as a storyteller. And then no matter what, I always end up with a team.
Joss Whedon
#30. Things were a lot simpler in Detroit. I didn't care about anything but boyfriends.
Madonna Ciccone
#31. Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved,it would be much simpler, but much less magical
Trey Parker
#32. There is so much more to the things that we think we know from afar. The close you get the more complex it is, not the simpler it is to understand.
Susan Meiselas
#33. Our world is built on adrenaline and getting away with it. Different cities different names. Its a far simpler life to lead when there is one around to tell you when you are being stupid. Believe me dear cousin I know better than anyone.
- Gabrielle
Ally Carter
#34. I'm much more famous than I am rich, but I'm able to scale back my lifestyle. I know a lot of people who were where I was who can't imagine living any simpler, but I haven't got a lot of expensive wants.
Ali MacGraw
#35. We all pine for a time in life when things were simpler. Even when they weren't necessarily simpler, hindsight makes them look a lot simpler. The reality of it was that it wasn't.
Ben Gibbard
#36. ... It's like a spiral: They keep making everything more basic so it will appeal to everyone. And gradually, everyone gets used to everything being basic, so we get less and less varied as people, more simple. So the corps make everything even simpler. And it goes on and on.
M T Anderson
#37. Did you know that there is a condition that appears before any sort of pain, diseases and disorder? It is simpler than you can imagine right now. My dear friend, that condition very much exists, it is very real. In simple words we can call it the 'weak flow of Chi' (life energy).
William Lee
#38. It is a curious fact that the more sophisticated we become the simpler grows our speech.
George Eliot
#39. Black makes your life so much simpler. Everything matches black, especially black.
Nora Ephron
#41. In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#42. Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such as understanding the theory of relativity!
Albert Einstein
#43. A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.
Thulasiraj Ravilla
#44. In a simpler world, perhaps unilateral power held by a single, smart, capable leader could rule the day. In a complex world, as we'll explore together, it takes a collective sharing of power, creativity, and perspectives to become agile and nuanced enough to lead into the uncertain future.
Jennifer Garvey Berger
#45. For even the most dehumanized modern fantasies depend on some older and simpler figure; the adventures may be mad, but the adventurer must be sane.
G.K. Chesterton
#46. Augusta created a magical object called the Interpreter Stone, and I came up with a simpler magical language to go along with it. So now, instead of reciting a difficult verbal spell, a sorcerer can use the simpler language to write his spell on cards and feed it to the stone.
Dima Zales
#47. It should surprise no one that modern soldiers return home just as conflicted and detached as previous generations. The difference is that in the age of vapid American decadence, their simpler fundamental values are largely irrelevant to we civilians.
Tiffany Madison
#48. In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time.
Sarah Vowell
#49. As you get older, your tastes get simpler. I like a sleek evening dress with a pair of big earrings. That's all.
Ivana Trump
#51. O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.
Robert Breault
#52. I don't think fine dining is dying, but I think those rare occasions when you really want the fanciness are diminishing ... I think a lot of people are going to find simpler, more casual ways to enjoy an experience.
Mario Batali
#53. My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away.
Jacques Pepin
#54. The challenge is about taking things that are infinitely complex and making them simpler and more understandable.
Robert Greenberg
#55. Wildness in animals is a curious thing to us humans. Isn't that why people watch Animal Planet? Escape. Maybe that's why we watch. Animal behavior is elemental. It takes us back to a simpler time.
Barbara Delinsky
#56. You can spend a lot of time trying to figure out how men think, and you'll always be wrong. That's because they're so much simpler than we are. They don't think half the time. They just want what they want and then go for it.
Kim Gatlin
#57. Our character ... is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.
George Santayana
#58. In art we do not make things any simpler by making simpler things. Reduction does not yield certainty, but something like its opposite, which is ambiguity and multi-valence.
Kirk Varnedoe
#59. All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it
W.B.Yeats
#60. By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.
Mitt Romney
#61. One must look at what is needed rather than what is wanted. This is the most critical point in making life easier and simpler - need versus want.
Glen Mizrahi
#62. How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.
David Hilbert
#63. Perhaps the most admirable reason to seek rapport would be to put someone at ease, but if that is a stranger's entire intent, a far simpler way is to just leave the woman alone. Charm
Gavin De Becker
#66. God's philosophy is simpler than the simplest: Never give up, never give up!
Sri Chinmoy
#67. That's the world something simpler... humans, mankinds make it complex.
Deyth Banger
#68. A man's needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends.
Thomas Chalmers
#69. The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.
Todd Helton
#70. Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.
Robert A. Heinlein
#71. Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
Claude Monet
#72. Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.
Michael Johns
#73. Simplicity is not proof of truth. But since we can
never understand true reality, if two models both explain the
same facts, it is more rational to use the simpler one. It is a
matter of convenience.
Scott Adams
#74. Hearing from you makes me long for simpler times, but perhaps the attraction of the past is that it is over, and we can make of it what we will.
Starling Lawrence
#75. When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached.
Gottfried Leibniz
#76. (As Einstein said, "Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler.")
Ray Kurzweil
#77. To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.
John Tukey
#78. Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.
Charles Bukowski
#79. Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings
always darker, emptier and simpler.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#80. I often think about, 'How do we return to a simpler way of living? Is there some way that we can start to think of each other as human beings again, instead of worshiping money, instead of worshiping electronics, instead of worshiping getting ahead just for me?'
Giancarlo Esposito
#81. The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
Bayard Taylor
#82. The simpler the insight, the more profound the conclusion.
Janna Levin
#84. The older he got, the simpler the world was revealed to be.
Elizabeth Bear
#85. One of the high spots of the decade for me was offering the bill which culminated in the tax act of 1986, which brought rates down. That was the most difficult problem to solve: how to make the tax system of the United States more fair. We tried to make it simpler, but we failed on that one.
Donald T. Regan
#86. Kissing a witch is a perilous business. Everybody knows it's ten times as dangerous as letting her touch your hand, or cut your hair, or steal your shoes. What simpler way is there than a kiss to give power a way into your heart?
Emma Donoghue
#87. The simpler it is, the better I like it.
Peter Lynch
#88. The simpler you say it, the more eloquent it is.
August Wilson
#89. Life would be so much simpler if guys were like mood rings, and they changed color when they liked you.
Melissa Kantor
#90. The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#91. All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities.
Thomas Sowell
#92. Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.
William Of Ockham
#93. I think I thought it would be important for electronics as we knew it then, but that was a much simpler business and electronics was mostly radio and television and the first computers.
Jack Kilby
#94. We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The tax code is also used to promote behavior that we as a nation support, such as home ownership or charitable contributions.
Charles B. Rangel
#95. Ugh!" She threw her hands in the air. "No? No? That's your favorite word, isn't it?
"It's a classic," he told her calmly, his composure only succeeding in making her more irate. "So much simpler than, say, 'ain't gonna happen' or 'not a chance in hell.
Julie Ann Walker
#96. You will die a dozen deaths, boy, and every one will hurt ... but when your true death comes, you will live again. The second life is simpler and sweeter, they say.
George R R Martin
#98. Tools that make life simpler ... tend to make life more hectic, and more prone to disruptions.
John-Talmage Mathis
#99. I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life, if it survives, will be far simpler - and the technologies, too. Then we will have come full circle to something like life on the savanna.
Kirkpatrick Sale
#100. Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.
John McWhorter
